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BANGKOK: Thai Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn faces a daunting task as heir to the throne after his father gained semi-divine status in a...

ABUJA: Jihadist group Boko Haram has freed 21 of more than 200 girls it kidnapped in April 2014 in the northern Nigerian town...

Muscat: Sultan Qaboos of Oman is in "good health", the country's foreign minister said Thursday, as rumours circulated that the 75-year-old monarch had...

United Nations, United States: Newly-appointed UN chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday said it was time to overcome divisions over ending the war in...

The Hague:  Dutch tourists to Thailand were warned Thursday to avoid any "declarations or discussions critical of the royal family" in updated travel...

Miami: Hurricane Nicole closed in on Bermuda as an "extremely dangerous" storm, US weather forecasters said Thursday, just hours before it was due...

MOSCOW: A foreign policy adviser to U.S. Republican candidate Donald Trump has accused Washington of contributing to an atmosphere of mutual contempt with...

ANKARA: Turkey has no secret agenda in Iraq, presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said Thursday.  Speaking to the media at the presidential complex in...

Glasgow: Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on Thursday unveiled plans for a new independence referendum in case her demands for more autonomy and...

Washington: The low level of US claims for unemployment insurance continued at the start of this month in another sign of healthy labor...

Malé, Maldives: The Maldives said Thursday it is quitting the Commonwealth after years of wrangling over its human rights record since the toppling...

Bangkok: Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest-serving monarch, has died at the age of 88, the palace announced Thursday, leaving a divided...

NAIROBI: As soon as Ann Ondaye's husband died, his two brothers took all the Kenyan widow's possessions: the television, bicycle, a fishing boat...

American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American...

STOCKHOLM: Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize for Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," the...

GENEVA: The Syrian government has now partially approved a United Nations aid plan for October, but not its request to deliver assistance to...

Dresden, Germany: A Syrian bomb plot suspect found hanged with a T-shirt in his cell had not been deemed an "acute" suicide risk,...

BEIRUT: Renewed bombing of rebel-held eastern Aleppo killed 145 people on Tuesday and Wednesday, Ammar al Selmo, the head of the Civil Defence...